Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 11 Aug 2018

A plane stolen from Seattle-Tacoma international airport by a mechanic has crashed, say authorities. F-15 fighter jets were scrambled and flights grounded in a major security incident after the airline employee made “an unauthorised take-off” without any passengers on board. A law enforcement spokesperson said the incident was a suicide. The unnamed pilot was described as a 29-year-old mechanic.

Former adviser says Trump is ‘racist’ and ‘misogynist’

Donald Trump is a “racist” who has used the “N-word” repeatedly, says Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former Apprentice contestant and ex-White House adviser. In what is being described as a “searing” memoir, Manigault Newman, once the most prominent African American in Trump’s White House, writes that she realised the US President is a “racist, a bigot and a misogynist”.

Rees-Mogg says Boris burka probe is a ‘show trial’

The Conservative party’s investigation into Boris Johnson is a “show trial” and is being used to stop him becoming leader, claims Jacob Rees-Mogg. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the Tory backbencher says Theresa May’s “personal rivalry” with Johnson is “taking the heat off Labour”. Johnson sparked controversy this week by describing women in burkas as looking like …read more

‘They’re making decisions about us… Former White House senior staffer and "Apprentice" contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman said no African-American senior staffers have been employed at the White House since her departure. "They're making decisions about us without us," she said in an interview with MSNBC on Monday. Manigault Newman's memoir on her time as an adviser for President Donald Trump, "Unhinged", is set to be released this week. Former White House adviser and "Apprentice" contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman said no African-American senior staffers have been employed at the White House since her departure in January. "Right now, there is no African-American senior staffer in the…

‘She made it up’: Trump and his aides go… Omarosa Manigault-Newman claimed she heard Donald Trump saying the N-word "multiple times" in a three-minute recording. She added that the remarks were made in reference to Kwame Jackson, an African American contestant on NBC's show, "The Apprentice." Trump and another official fired back at her claims and called the alleged slurs "disgusting." Manigault-Newman did not identify the person who allegedly played the recording for her, but at least three longtime Trump aides told The Huffington Post that she told them that it was Troy McClain, a former "Apprentice" contestant. McClain laughed at the notion that he played the recording for…

Omarosa already contradicted the most explosive… Omarosa Manigault's memoir, "Unhinged," hasn't even been released yet and she appears to have already contradicted one its most explosive allegations regarding President Donald Trump. Manigault told NPR on Friday she heard a tape recording in which Trump allegedly used the N-word during his days hosting "The Apprentice," which is apparently not what she wrote in the book. Manigault had a short, rocky tenure at the White House, prompting questions about the validity of the claims she makes about Trump in her memoir. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday said Manigault's book is "riddled with lies." Omarosa…